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Mining & the mines, 1888

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The Colliery Strike at Newcastle. the Masters Agree to a Conference. Sydney

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 7 September 1888 · page 24

The colliery proprietors have once more smoothed the way for a settlement of the dispute between themselves and the miners at Newcastle, The present hopeful aspect of affairs…

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The Coal Miners Strike

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 8 September 1888 · page 3

The first step in the direction of settling the coal strike has been crowned with success. Canon Selwyn and Messrs Banker and Creer, of Newcastle, met the masters in Sydney on…

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Gold Prospecting in Ireland

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 11 September 1888 · page 2

London, Monday.—A license to prospect for gold over fifty or sixty acres of land in Ireland has been granted to P. Morgan, the discoverer of gold in Wales…

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Hunted Down; Or, the Clink of Gold. novelist. CHAPTER I.

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 14 September 1888 · page 1

It was an winter night. I was sitting over the fire at my chambers in the Middle Temple, and my friend Frank Bowser was pacing up and down the room…

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Latest Telegrams. the Colliery Strike at Newcastle. the Conference a Failure. a Prolonged Strike Now Inevitable. Sydney

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 14 September 1888 · page 24

The conference at Newcastle this morning ended in an entire failure. The masters refused to make any concession, and the negotiations came to a final and absolute end. A prolonged…

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The Coal Strike. Alarming Discovery of Dynamite in a Mine. Proclamation by the Government. Newcastle

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 21 September 1888 · page 25

Some sensation was created to-day, owing to the discovery of some discharged dynamite cartridges in Lewis and Thomson’s Tribute Colliery. This colliery, which has been kept…

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General European Telegrams. the Colliery Strike at Newcastle. London, September 13

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 21 September 1888 · page 18

In consequence of the strike in the Newcastle collieries, several English steamers will take supplies of coal to Australia. Shipowners are not disposed to place steamers on the…

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Novelist. Hunted Down; Or, the Clink of Gold. Chapter Ii

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 21 September 1888 · page 1

When I had found my way into the bed-room, and had struck[?] light, I formed a resolution to act promi[?]ly as soon as morning dawned. I drew [?]ck the curtain…

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The Coal Strike

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 22 September 1888 · page 2

THE gravity of the coal strike has been realised in the breaking off of the negotiatious between the representatives of the masters and men ; and it now remains to be shown…

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Recovery of Gold

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 28 September 1888 · page 11

A new and important process for the recovery of gold from- refractory ores is being highly spoken of in Scotland. The process (says the Silver Age) is known as the…

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Two Miners Killed’ Daylesford

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 28 September 1888 · page 21

To-day a melancholy accident happened at Sailor’s Creek, about two miles from Daylesford, by which two fine young men, named Joseph Cross and Alexander Ballantyne, were killed in…

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The Mining Disaster in South Africa, Fuller Particulars

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 28 September 1888 · page 11

The following are the details .of the fetal fire at the Diamond Fields in. South Africa, taken from the Diamond Fields Advertiser; —Between half-past 6 and 7 o’clock the…

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The Colliery Strike at Newcastle. Three More Rioters Committed for Trial. [By Electric Telegraph.] Newcastle

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 28 September 1888 · page 26

The three men, Robert Jury, John Topin, and Israel West, charged with riot at the Newcastle Company's pit on the 14th inst., were brought up on remand at the Newcastle…

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The Coal Miners of Great Britain. London, September 27

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 5 October 1888 · page 18

The coal miners in England, Wales, and Scotland, to the number of 200,000, have demanded of the masters an advance of 10 percent. on the rates at present paid to them…

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Threatened Coal Strike in England

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 5 October 1888 · page 2

London, Thursday.—The miners employed in the collieries throughout the United Kingdom are agitating for an increase of wages. A great strike is imminent as the men threaten…

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Gold Discovery in Western Australia

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 5 October 1888 · page 25

A Roebourne telegram states that a nugget weighing 103[?]z. 2dwt. has been found by a man named Naughten. It consists of about 9.)oz. of pure gold, the remainder being quartz,…

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The Colliery Strike at New-castle. Stoppage of Work at the Stockton Mine, Newcastle

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 12 October 1888 · page 21

New complications has arisen in connection with the strike which has resulted in the stoppage of the work only recently resumed by the miners at the Stockton pit. When the front…

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The Colliery Strike at Newcastle. Newcastle

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 12 October 1888 · page 27

Nothing fresh of importance has transpired in connection with the strike. The result of the ballot regarding. the acceptance of the Stockton agreement is not definitely known…

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The Miners' Difficulty

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 16 October 1888 · page 2

London Monday.—The miners' difficulty is still unsettled. An immense strike is feared…

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The British Collieries. London, October 16

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 19 October 1888 · page 18

The owners of the various collieries throughout Great Britain propose to form a syndicate to work the whole of the collieries, with a capital of £80,000,000…

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